| Souse 1. (n.) A corrupt form of Sou. 2. (n.) Pickle made with salt. 3. (n.) Something kept or steeped in pickle; esp., the pickled ears, feet, etc., of swine. 4. (n.) The ear; especially, a hog's ear. 5. (n.) The act of sousing; a plunging into water. 6. (v. t.) To steep in pickle; to pickle. 7. (v. t.) To plunge or immerse in water or any liquid. 8. (v. t.) To drench, as by an immersion; to wet thoroughly. 9. (v. t.) To swoop or plunge, as a bird upon its prey; to fall suddenly; to rush with speed; to make a sudden attack. 10. (v. t.) To pounce upon. 11. (n.) The act of sousing, or swooping. 12. (adv.) With a sudden swoop; violently. Thesaurus Entries baptism, baptize, bathe, bender, booze, booze up, boozehound, boozify, bottle sucker, brannigan, brew, brewing, bum, burial, bury, bust, chug, chug-a-lug, crock, deluge, dip, dipping, douche, douse, dousing, drench, drenching, drouk, drown, drunk, duck, ducking, dunk, dunking, elbow bender, engulf, engulfment, flush, fuddle, ginhound, hooch hound, imbrue, imbruement, imbue, imbuement, immerge, immergence, immerse, immersion, impregnate, impregnation, infiltrate, infiltration, infuse, infusion, inject, injection, inundate, inundation, jag, lave, leach, leaching, liquor, liquor up, lixiviate, lixiviation, lush, lusher, macerate, maceration, merge, overtake, overwhelm, percolate, percolation, permeate, permeation, pickle, plaster, plunge in water, pollute, pulping, raise the elbow, rinse, rum hound, rummy, saturate, saturation, seethe, seething, sink, sinking, soak, soakage, soaking, sodden, sop, sopping, sousing, sponge, steep, steeping, stew, stone, submerge, submergence, submerse, submersion, swack, swig, swill, swillbelly, swillbowl, swillpot, tank up, tear, tipsify, wash, waterlog, wet, whelm, wino |